Confirmed: Facebook Acquires FB.com Domain Name — Facebook acquires FB.com domain name. — Ending months of speculation, it's now confirmed that Facebook has acquired the FB.com domain name. — The whois record for the domain name just updated to show Facebook's name and nameservers for the domain name.

Facebook Currently Using FB.com Internally — As speculation swirls over what domain Facebook might use for its impending email service, there has also been discussion about the domain being used — however we've at a minimum been able to confirm that Facebook has configured the domain fb.com for internal use.

Oracle and Apple Announce OpenJDK Project for Mac OS X — Oracle and Apple® today announced the OpenJDK project for Mac OS® X. Apple will contribute most of the key components, tools and technology required for a Java SE 7 implementation on Mac OS X, including a 32-bit …

Aol To Unveil New Aol Mail On Sunday — Aol (err, us, I guess) will relaunch Aol Mail on Sunday afternoon, we've confirmed from sources close to Aol (hah). The company is currently the no. 4 webmail provider with around 30 million users. — We'll have a chance to play with it before then and post …

Why Google can't build Instagram — Tonight I was talking with an exec at Google and I brought up the success of Instagr.am (they've gotten more than 500,000 downloads in just a few weeks) and asked him “why can't Google do that?” I knew some of the answers.

Boxcar 4.0 Pushes iPhone Notifications To The Next Level — People say that I never say anything bad about the iPhone. Here's something: its notification system is awful. In particular, I'm talking about the way notifications are managed. They aren't. Any Push Notification that comes in overrides another one.

Now You Can Bump iOS Devices to Share Music — Bump, the application maker known for its mobile device contact and photo exchange technology, has just released an update to its iOS applications — iPhone, iPod touch, iPad — that supports user-to-user music sharing.

Facebook Poaches Foursquare Engineer — Facebook has poached an early Foursquare engineer, Nathan Folkman, we've learned. — We don't know what Folkman will be working on at Facebook. (Maybe Facebook Places, its Foursquare clone, which is now under the leadership of recent New Yorker Justin Shaffer?)

Cisco Hires Fired Apple Exec Mark Papermaster — Cisco has hired ex-Apple executive Mark Papermaster to work on “chips for switches,” Fox Business reporter Shibano Joshi just tweeted. — Papermaster was tossed from Apple in August. He was in charge of the iPhone and iPod hardware division.

New Eye-Popping Netflix Growth Stats — If you aren't impressed enough yet by Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX), the good folks at research firm Screen Digest shared some subscriber-only analytics on the streaming service at the Future of Film Summit earlier this week that were both compelling and confusing.

Samsung Galaxy Tab Teardown — Join us as we take a look into Samsung's 7-inch Android tablet! Step 1 — Samsung Galaxy Tab Teardown The Samsung Galaxy Tab has landed in the hands of iFixit. Long rumored to be the “iPad Killer,” join us as we assess this rumor and once and for all determine …